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• Mojave Max volunteers will be Las Vegas from Wyoming in April. It’s too hot to trot!

needed for the fall. Training starts She will become the Southern Nevada
the last week of August for this 10 District Manager after the reorganiza- ON’T run in the “Un-Run,”
week commitment. tion of the office structure later this but DO mark your calendar!
• BLM is proposing the building of a year. She will be working to build upon DAugust 15, is the deadline to
Sloan Canyon NCA trails system the partnerships developed by the Las register for the “Un-Run” event to sup-
for non-motorized use that Vegas Office over the last few years.
connects to the City of Henderson’s Mary Jo began her Federal career
Open Space and Trails Plan, the with the National Weather Service in
approved Anthem Trails System 1974. She has worked for that agency
and the proposed McCullough Hills twice and also worked for the Army
Trail. The system is intended to
meet the needs of hikers, equestrian Corps of Engineers for almost a year.
and mountain bikers by providing a Her BLM career began in 1984 at the
range of opportunities for differing Wyoming State office in Cheyenne.
skill levels and abilities. BLM, as After working several years in fluid
a Federal Agency, must complete minerals adjudication there, she com-
an Environmental Assessment pleted a couple of BLM developmental
(EA) to assess the potential programs before moving to Carlsbad,
impacts of the proposed Sloan New Mexico as the Assistant Field
Canyon NCA Master Plan Manager for Minerals and Lands. Dur-
Project. The final EPA findings ing almost four years in New Mexico, port Red Rock Canyon. The $20 “entry
and Decision Notice are scheduled Mary Jo also served as the Acting Field fee” will get you a colorful “Too Hot
to be completed by January, 2009. Manager for the Carlsbad Field Office to Trot” T-shirt just for not running.
A public open house meeting will for eight months. She then returned The day’s average temperature of 106
be held on July 1, 2008 at the Las to Wyoming as the Field Manager for degrees expected for the “Un-Run”
Vegas, Field Office, Conf. Rms. A, Kemmerer Field Office in southwest- will be added to the colorful t-shirt
B and C, 4701 North Torrey Pines ern Wyoming. She spent four years graphic designed by Julia Burke. Go to
Drive, Las Vegas NV 89130. Call there before moving to Las Vegas in friendsofredrockcanyon.org and click
702-515-5000 for times. search of new opportunities.
• A $3,000 donation was received Born and raised in Cheyenne, on “Too Hot to Trot” to download your
from HSBC, thanks to Ranger Mary Jo lived in several different registration form. Mail it in with your
$20 fee and the shirt will be mailed by
Kate Sorom who talked up our cities as a result of her father’s ser-
Friends contributions to the Red September 15.
Rock Canyon NCA. Way to vice in the United States Air Force.
She earned an Associate Degree in
go, Kate! Answers to quiz:
• As a way to increase our Business and Management from the
membership, we are going to have University of Alaska, Anchorage, a missed #6 ... just pathetic!
a volunteer recruitment table at Bachelor’s Degree in Business from from Red Rock Canyon. You probably
the V.C. on the weekends beginning Chapman University and a Master’s existence you deserve. Just stay away
in July (date to be determined). We Degree in Public Administration from but we leave you to the miserable
are looking for volunteers to assist the University of Wyoming (all on
with this endeavor for a couple of the “twenty-year plan”). Mary Jo is a harsh penalty for the likes of you,
hours a day. Please contact Barb fortunate to have a wonderful family, five? The Desert Trumpet usually has
Jorgensen at 775-727-6784 or which includes her husband Darrell, you at the Visitor Center. Less than
fjorgensen@aol.com. daughter Wendy and son John. seeds will always be placed out for
The Friends of Red Rock Can- Academy mascot. With five to eight,
Welcome Mary Jo! yon organization is very pleased to eagle and will be the next Air Force
welcome her to Las Vegas. We all or more is great. You soar with the
look forward to continuing the work AWARDS AND PENALTIES: Nine
ary Jo Rugwell, our new of protecting and enriching the Red
BLM Las Vegas Field Of- Rock Canyon National Conservation 6-C, 7-J, 8-K, 9-F, 10-G, 11-E, 12-D
Mfice Manager, arrived in Area together. ANSWERS: 1-H, 2-A, 3-I, 4-L, 5-B,

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